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Lamb stew is either one thing
or the other — a dreary, unin-
terested sort of dish or a real
treat, By following this recipe,
you'll be able to, serve something
that even the most critical will
smack their lips over.
SAVORY LAMB STEW
11/2 pounds lamb shoulder
2 tablespoons fat
4 cups water
1 cup cetera leaves
4 sprigs parsley
1 bay leaf
2 teaspoons pepper
jlp tsp, monosodium glutaniate
12 small onions, peeled
3 large carrots, cut in 2"
pieces
94 teaspoon ground ginger.
lis teaspoon ground rosemary
14 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Wipe meat with a damp cloth
and but in 11" cubes. Heat fat
in a large, heavy sauce pot and
brown meat slowly on all sides.
Add the next 7 ingredients. Cover
tightly and simmer about 95
minutes. Add onions, carrots,
ginger and rosemary. Simmer
about 25 minutes longer, or until
vegetables are tender, Then
'thicken the stew — mix flour
with 'h cup water. Stir into the
het stew. Bring to a boil, stir -
sing constantly, and cook 2 min-
utes. Stir In lemon juice. Makes
servings.
Almost a meal in itself is this
highly satisfying dish; and while
the recipe calls for frozen lima
beans, the unfrozen sort will do
just as well, or something else
ean be substituted.
SHORT RIBS & VEGETABLES
2 pounds short ribs of beef,
cut in serving pieces
2 tbisp. all-purpose flour
lr/s teaspoons salt
al teaspoon pepper
a tbisps. fat or beef -fat drip-
pings
1 cup water
2 carrots, cut in 132 strips
12 small white onions
1 12 -ounce package frozen
lima beans
Wipe meat with a damp cloth.
Combine flour, salt and pepper;
'sprinkle over meat, coating well.
Beat fat in a heavy skillet and
brown meat well on all sides.
Add water. Cover tightly and
took over low heat, about 30
minutes, or until meat begins to
seem tender. Add carrots and
anions; cook 15 minutes more.
Then add beans and cook an ad-
ditional 10 to 15 minutes or until
tender. Thicken gravy, if desired.
Makes 4 servings.
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FAVORITE CASE
(2 eggs)
214 cups sifted Cake Flour
21/2 teaspoons baking powder
la teaspoon salt
Stare Stare — Glaring from his
sage in Paris, France, is a
'"Grand Duke' owl, a rare and
dangerous species captured re-
cently in the mountainous Isere
region,of the French Alps. The
feathery creature Is on exhibi-
}lon at an ornithological show,
r cup butter :er ether short-
ening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
94 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, and sift
together three times, Cream but-
ter thoroughly, add sugar grad -
and cream together until
light and fluffy, Add eggs and
beat well. Add flour, alternately
with milk, a small amount at a
time, beating aftereach addition
until smooth, Add vanilla: Bake
in two greased 8 -inch layer pans
in moderate oven (3757.) 25
to 30 minutes, Spread Frosting
between layers and on tap- and
sides of cake.
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WONDER CAKE
(1 egg)
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
tes teaspoon salt
Hi cup butter or other sbort-
ening
1 cup sugar
1 egg, unbeaten
94 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, and sift
together three times, Cream but-
ter thoroughly, add sugar gradu-
ally, and cream together until
light and fluffy, Add egg and
beat very thoroughly, Add dour,
alternately with milk, a small
amount at a time, beating after
each addition until smooth. Add
vanilla, Bake in greased pan,
8x8x2 inches, in moderate oven
(350°F.) 45 to 50 minutes. Spread
with frosting.
This Was A Real
Runaway Romance
In the year 1770 the pleasure
city of Bath was aglow with
pretty girls, handsome men,
music and love.
Amid the gaiety no one lost
his heart more rapidly than ris-
ing playwright and politician
Richard Brinsley Sheridan as he
listened to the singing of lovely
Elizabeth Linley.
She was only sixteen and he
an impetuous nineteen. A witty
friend remarked that he had .
about as much chance. of win-
ning her heart as a doorpost,
for she was the toast of the
town.
Wherever she went, in pump -
room or assembly room, Eliza-
beth was escorted by the beaux
and fops of the world of fash-
ion. But Sheridan soon learned
that a certain Captain Mathews
pestered her with. his attentions
more than all other admirers.
And though the alluring singer
did not know it, Mathews was
a married man.
A practised and heartless phil-
anderer, the captain vowed he
would blow his brains out un-
less she return his love. With
youthful dally Flieabeth felt
subtly flattered by these suicide
threats. And she innocently be-
lieved his protestations of de-
votion.
Into this situation Sheridan
deft l y inserted himself by
courting Mathew's acquaintance.
Saying --nothing of his own love,
he was soon to all appearances
deep in the older man's friend-
ship. Then he' learned the
startling truth.
Mathews was an impostor,
whose rank of captain had
merely been self -awarded, With
an unhappy wife in the back-
ground, he was just another
adventurer with Bath as his
playground.
Acting as go-between, Sheri-
dan was able to -see Elizabeth
and tell her the truth. Though
half -Infatuated, -she reluctantly
consented to write Mathews a
farewell letter. But it was no
sooner written than she relent-
ed and Mathews called at her
house.
Brandishing a pistol, he now
swore to take both her life and
his •own unless she would pledge
her love to him, She pleaded
for time. And it seemed ;to
Short In The Saddle • -- Spurs, boots and saddles, all in lot sizes,
lent a Wild West effect to the recent Children's Horse Show et
Pinehurst.. Leslie Diekaon, 20 -month-old contestant Is shown
above nonchalantly waiting her turn in the ring to be Judged
for the lead line. Class,
That's A Dog? — It may be hard to believe, but this black bundle
resembling a ball of wool is really a H'un.garian shepherd dog.
The dog was on exhibition recently at a West Berlin, Germany,
dog show. -
the wretched Elizabeth that to
take poison herself was the only
way out,
To -day her behaviour smacks
of the "School for Scandal"
comedies that framed the era,
but Bath itself was a gigantis
stage and the emotions of the
heart ran true and deep. Lock-
ing herself in a room with a
bottle of laudanum. Elizabeth
dutifully sat down and wrote
her will. But perhaps she had
also coquettishly arrange d
through a friend for handsome
Sheridan, to be ,told what was
happening.
At the right moment the
young playwright broke in, sent
for a doctor, went in search of
Mathews and returned to urge
Elizabeth that it would be best
to leave Bath.
Escape with someone who
loved her, he pleaded, was the
only way. One day, when
Elizabeth's parents were out of
town, she entered a sedan chair.
Not tar away, in a closed car-
riage, Sheridan was waiting.
And as boy and girl drove away
they had the pleasure of seeing
Mathews waiting on Elizabeth's
doorstep.
By dawn,Sheridan and Eliza-
beth Linlewere boarding a
packet -boat for France. Youth-
fully ignorant of the ways of
the world, neither could see a
better way out.
So e hivalrous was Sheridan
that he intended to find a con-
vent in France where Elizabeth
could rest for a while before de-
ciding her future plans. Once
at sea, however, both decided
marriage was the natural out-
come of their escapade.
In a little church near Lille
they went through a ceremony
of marriage and the priest in-
stantly recommended a convent
which would temporarily re-
ceive Elizabeth. Thus the couple
parted on what shpuld have
been their honeymoon!
Back in Bath, however, Sheri-
dan found that Mathews had
not been idle. In the advertise-
ment columns of a local news-
paper he had inserted a notice
stigmatizing the playwright as a
liar and scoundrel.
Sheridan challenged the bogus
captain to a duel. With seconds
and swords, the two met by
candlelight in a London tavern.
The blades crossed—and swift-
ly Sheridan disarmed his op-
ponent. Mathews had to swal-
low his words and apologize for
the libel in writing,
Meanwhile, Elizabeth's parent's
had brought their daughter
home. But the drama was by
no means ended. Writhing un-
der public contempt, Mathews
insulted Sheridan again — and
again the playwright challenged
him to a duel.
He had shown mercy to his
opponent. But this time -at dawn
on a hillside near Bath — luck
was against him, His sword
broke off at the haft. Instead
of allowing him to surrender,
Mathews struck at hitt again
and again.
They left the young play-
wright for dead, Even his seconds
fled. Distracted at hearing the
news, Elizabeth rushed to the
scene. But fortunately Sheridan
had crawled away, A friendly
shepherd had found him and
dressed his wounds. Seen Sheri-
dan recovered. And when he
was twenty-two and Elizabeth
Linley was still only nineteen
they were again married, this
time in the English way.
Under Fire — Dr. J. Robert Op-
penheimer, .adviser to the Ato-
mic Energy Commission, has
been suspended on security
grounds, pending an investiga-
tion by the commission's security
board. He is one of the world's
foremost atomic physicists, and.
directed the construction of
America's first A-bomb.
All Done With
Cards
A recent issue of one of the
best known businessman's mag-
azines carries a straight-faced
and capable article on the "uni-
versal card." This isn't the kind
of card that bears hearts and
spades and is certainly universal
among both bridge and canasta
players. It is a punched and cod-
ed bit of cardboard designed to
tell personnel managers at the
flick of a switch what manner of
men they are shepherding.
Now, because we are not
wholly unsophisticated we are
aware that there are great hum-
an as'well as economic values in
such advices. They help to get
square pegs out of round holes,
they can aid top management in
discovering future general sup-
erintendents, and they can res-
cue able young men from under
the thumbs of frustrated, petty ,
tyrants. But because we are also
a bit fed up with "mechanical
brains" and other mechanistic
paving stones to a push-button
world we may be pardoned- a
f5w skeptical though not deroga-
tory observations.
This card carries on its face
the usual identifying data from
photograph to thumbprint. Its
margin is notched so that in the
twinkle of an eye one of those
marvellous , electronic selector
machines will classify the em-
ployee according to 14 personal-
ity characteristics reduced to •
measurability on some scale -
from his "extroversion rating" to
his "political affiliation," from
his "salary gradient" to the
"Moss Social Intelligence" score
of his wife,
So .ardent a try at comprehen-
siveness—at keying every pos-
sible factor in the personal equa-
tion—leaves us half surprised not
to find something akin to what
Paul found on Mars Hill: 'an-
other notch dedicated tS "the
unknown traits." And noting that
"informAtion Of a private nature"
is to be entered on the back
of the card, we would hope that
such information might lead to
a personal interview t0 find out
what the guy is really like.
—From The Christian Science
Monitor,
1
Exhaust Smoke
May Re The
Culprit
The alarming modern increase
in cancer of the lung has been
attributed by some medical men
.to smoking -.-but it may beoral-
nary smoke, not tobacco smoke,
that is the true villain,
Alli- over the world there is
a greater incidence of lung
cancer in cities than in country
areas. An American doctor, ad-
dressing the U.S. Cancer Socie-
ty, laid the blame- on the pole
luted air of built-up areas, and
particularly .upon the exhaust
fumes from cars, buses and lor-
ries, - "We are creating cancer
hazard in the air Over our big
cities," he said, "by dumping
alh,manner of fumes and gases
into the atmospbere,"
Filter papers like smog masks,
placed acrossthe exhaust pipes
of petrol and diesel oil engines
r u n n 1•n g, collected materials
which caused skin tumours on
fifty per centofthe mice they
were painted on. Yet in all cit-
ies these materials are steadily
accumulated in the air we
breathe. The everyday "smog"
which we never notice may be
just as dangerous to our health
as the occasional outbreak . of
,black "smog".
Chance Laugh
Turned Killer
Into Clown
•
Oldtimers who first saw the
hard-hitting, savage Max Baer
step into the ring will tell you
that the California Adonis could
have been the greatest -heavy-
weight of all had it not been for
a single laugh that rang in his
ears early in his career. It was
that laugh that may have changed
a great fighter with a strong kill-
er instinct into -the merriest
clown that ever pranced through
the ropes.
It was in 1930 that Max Baer
met a barrel-chested, handsome
young Italian named Frankie
Campbell. Minutes before the
fight was to begin, a trainer told
Max ils-'the dressing room that
Campbell - w a s saying things
about him, calling him a punk
and a bum. Baer sprang down
from the rubbing table, slapped
one glove against the other and
yelled, "Okay, let's gol I'll kill
this guyl"
In the second round, Frankie
Campbell caught Max with a
looping right and dumped him
to the canvas. Foolishly, Frank-
ie turned to wave at some friends
at ringside and laughed in de-
rision. Max, sprawling on the
floor, heard the jeering laugh and
his rage burst like a storm. He
shot across the ring and . sent
Campbell spinning with. a .-ter-
rifle blow behind the ear.
Campbell, spitting blood be-
tween round, mumbled to his
seconds, "I think something snap-
ped in my head," Nevertheless,
he wentoutfor the third and
fourth rounds to run into a Baer
gone berserk. Fighting like a
madman to erase the memory of
that derisive laugh, Baer punch-
ed .furiously. In the fifth round
he dropped the battered Camp-
bell, The next morning, Frankie
died, a horrible, battered wreck
of a man.
From that day, Max Baer ceas-
ed to be the same vicious killer of
the. ring. There was a period of
semiobscurity during which Max
was on the skids. Then he came
back to win other fights, but nev-
er again with the full display of
savagery that marked him in
that fatal bought. His parade
through fistiana was thoroughly
picturesque. gels clowning made
all the headlines. Despite his an-
tics, Max fought the best of them,
men like Tom Heeney, Max
Schmeling, Tommy Loughran,
Risko, and Paulino. It was his
defeat of Schmeling that earned
Max Baer a shot at the title then
held by the ponderous Primo
Carnera, And that fight was one
of the wildest ever seen in the
Garden Bowl, writes Bi11 Stern
in "Favorite Fight Stories."
Max, eternally the clown, dom-
inated the fight from start to
finish. Although the big Italian
outweighed him by nearly sev-
enty pounds, the California Adon-
is tossed him around 'the ring like
a sack of oats. While winning
the title, Max was still able to
get off one of his best gags in
the ring. Outfighting and out -
jabbing the big champion, Max
sent his opponent to the canvas
twelve separate occasions durs
ing the contest. Many of the
times he was knocked down,
Carnera succeeded in grabbing
Baer and pulling hint with him.
Instead of making Max sore, this
little trick of the champion's
seemed t0amuse him mare and
moreeedh time it happened. At
last, when the two men were
sprawling on the floor and try-
ing to seratnble back to their feet
to go on with the fight, Baer
tutted 16' Primo lying next t0
him and roared happily in bis
ear for all the spectators to hear,
"Hey, Preeml Last one up's a
sissy!"
CAMERA THAT'S SMALLER THAN
CIGARETTE -LIGHTER
The millions of picture -goers
who saw that delightful ,film
"Roman Holiday," starrii)g the
brilliant and beautiful y o u n g
British actress Audrey Hepburn,
will remember that while she
was going about Rome pretend-
ing not to be a princess, she was
recognized by an American
newspaper man, Gregory Peck,
who got a pal to take photo-
graphs of her without her know-
ing it,
The camera this man used was
about the shape and size of a
eigerette lighter, To throw her
Off the scent, he put a cigarette
into his mouth, took out the
.eamera and pretended t0 be.
lighting his cigarette, ' whereas
actually he was taking pictures
of her. The camera could not,
of course, light his cigarette. His
pal ,gave him a light on the
pretext that the lighter . didn't
work,
Now most people, I'm pretty
sure, thought that tiny camera
was just a film stunt. There
couldn't, they felt, be a camera
so small that could take such
excellent pictures. Wel, there is,
you know, And I have one
exactly like it, writes R. J. Min-
ney in "Tit -Bits". Thepictures
it takes are astonishingly good.
Sharp and Clear
Let me tell you about it, The
camera is made entirely of a
very light, bright metal and is
no heavier than a cigarette -
lighter. It is three inches long
and one inch wide. My cigarette -
lighter is nearly as long and hall`
as wide again, The film used is
not quite two-fifths of an inch
wide, and just over two feet
long. On this it takes fifty ex-
posures, each 'of them extremely
„tiny of course. But the images
are sharp and clear.
There are nearly. three hun-
dred springs and wheels and bits
of lens and metal, The lens is
of wide angle and extremely
sensitive. The camera can be
used at quite close range, as
close as eight inches from the
face of the person photograph-
ed — all the distances are very
carefully marked and the camera
can be adjusted quite easily to
one foot or one foot four inches
from the object (or to infinity)
before being put into operation.
This close work is, of course,
very useful for copying docu-
ni'ents and the camera was indeed
used for this form of spying in
the film "The Thief," of which
Ray.Milland was the star.
The speeds, too, are of an
astonishing range. You can work
as fast as one -thousandth of -a
second and slow it down to half
a second or more if you choose.
And the actionof the trigger is
almost inaudible. Nobody could
possibly suspect that you were
taking a picture, unless, of
course, you held it to your eye
and began fiddling with. the
adjustments in full view.
Built into the camera there
are two filters, one green, and
the other or ge. These are for
photographing clouds and snow
scenes, which though almost in-
visible on ,the film, enlarge up
with amazing clarity.
You would think — I know I
did — that this camera was
evolved doling the war f or
espionage and various forms of
military and aerial reconnais-
sance.
But it is not a product of the
war. The model I have was pre-
war. It was made in Riga, which
is the capital bi the small and
almost unknown state of Latvia„
now bn the other side of the
Iron Curtain,
Until the outbreak of war in
]:939, Latvia was an independent,
state. Russia seized It at the
time Germany overran Poland
and it remained in Russian
hands until the German attack
on Russia by Hitler in 1941.
When the German armies swept
through Latvia, the chiefs saw -
the factory, were entranced by
this mating little camera, and
transferred its manufacture t0
Wetzler, in the veryheart cit
Germany,
After the war, Wetzlar ,fell
into the zone occupied by U,$,
troops. They saw the camera.
and marvelled at its ingenuity
and its capabilities. Production
was stepped up and thousands of
the cameras were shipped over-
seas for sale in. Canada and the
United States.
So Claimed
Damages
Insurance companies l.aqu;:nt-
17 meet tale queerest claims, At
Bucknall;, Nptts, last year, for
instance, an 8-1b, vegeable mar-
row cut from a family's garden
exploded in the larder—presum
, ably from gases fotmed inside
the over -ripe fruit—completely
wrecking some crockery.
Tragically, at Liverpool, a one-
year -old child was killed by a
tyre buret; The little boy was
playing in his front garden when
a lorry passed by. The tyre ex-
ploded
xploded directly opposite him,'
and he died from injuries.
At Epping Forest, two Christ-
mases ago, a man and his wife,
sitting in their car, had the mis-
fortune to be ,charged by a herd
of deer. The leader, an unusual-
ly aggressive buck, rammed their
car with such force that it went
bouncing down a bank, The herd
charged after. it and the luck-
less couple - found -themselves
assailed by a forest of lashing
hoofs, striking the roof and
thudding through the windows,
The husband escaped bruises,
a but his wife, injured in her
ribs, had to go to hospital,
A claim with an altogether
brighter aspect originated from
'-the Belgian Congo after, a motor
ist had bumped into a hippopo-
tamus. In filling in his claim
form, he regretted that the third •
party had on this occasion, scut -
ted before he could get parti-
culars. The insurance agent.
Hucknall, Notts, last - year, for
in this case the usual "knock
for knock , agreement" hardly
applied! -
The Bride — Actress Susan Ball,
who suffered a leg amputation
earlier this year, is shown in her
wedding gown as she poses for
wedding pictures before her
marriage to actor Richard Long
at Santa Barbara, Calif.
They'll Get The Point .- Their thoughts obviously on the impend-
ing needle, three rade school students listen as school Principal
F, J. 'Kelsey explains polio vaccine request forms, The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is supplying the Salk polio
vaccine for this spring's tests, results of which will net be *own
until 1955, £